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Zuzanna

A Slavic name meaning "lily". It still sits inside Poland's top 100 and gets given often enough that you almost certainly know at least one Zuzanna, even as newborns have thinned since the name's 2000s high.

Zuzanna Pronunciation

Zuzanna is pronounced zoo-ZAHN-nah (/zuˈzanna/).

Related names
Zula Zuzia
Alive in 2025
227,921
Newborns 2025
3,881
National rank
#55
Next name day
24 May
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What Zuzanna means

Where Zuzanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Zuzanna reaches Polish through Slavic speech, and the sense fixed to it is a flower. The name means lily, lilia in Polish, the tall white bloom that keeps turning up in old church art. That meaning has clung to the name for a very long time.

Polish loves to shorten what it loves. Zuzanna gives way to Zuzia at home, and to Zuza when even that feels long. Across the southern border the variant Zuzana does the same work in Czech and Slovak. The full form waits on documents; the short forms do the daily living.

Picture a school register in September. The teacher reads Zuzanna, and three hands or none go up, and by lunch she is Zuzia to everyone. One of her name days falls on the eleventh of August, so the imieniny arrives in high summer, flowers already in the shops. The lily got there first.

When Zuzanna celebrates name day

Zuzanna appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 24 May.

Next name day
24 May
Monday in 2027
Next one in 211 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Zuzanna

1 in 99 women in Poland is named Zuzanna. 227,921 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #55 among female names.

People with the name Zuzanna 2019 → 2025
227,921 +31,401 since 2019
2020 200,719 +4,199
2021 207,864 +7,145
2022 214,101 +6,237
2023 219,547 +5,446
2024 224,033 +4,486
2025 227,921 +3,888

Zuzanna's popularity over time

3,881 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #9 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.

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3,881 newborns with the name Zuzanna in 2025
national rank #9 that year

Where parents choose Zuzanna

Zuzanna is given fairly evenly across Poland, with no strong regional preference. It leans slightly toward Holy Cross (18% above the national average) and is least common in Greater Poland (15% below).

Chosen most
  • Holy Cross
    +18%
    1 in 45 babies
  • Lublin
    +12%
    1 in 47 babies
  • Warmian-Masurian
    +9%
    1 in 49 babies
Chosen least
  • Greater Poland
    −15%
    1 in 62 babies
  • Masovian
    −9%
    1 in 58 babies
  • Pomeranian
    −4%
    1 in 55 babies

Zuzanna as a middle name

Zuzanna is a first name for 227,921 women in Poland and a middle name for another 45,292, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 52nd, between Dominika (48,283) and Gabriela (43,767).

As a first name
227,921
As a middle name
45,292
first name 83% middle name 17%
Middle-name ranking women

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